Platform Leadership

Cusumano, M. A., & Gawer, A. (2002). Platform Leadership: How Intel, Microsoft, and Cisco Drive Industry Innovation. Harvard Business School Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2002

Link

https://archive.org/details/platformleadersh0000gawematched

Cited from

computer_science, economics_finance, engineering_design, mathematics, systems_cybernetics

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• Decomposition

  • This sourceBibliography-only (tier C). OFF-TOPIC ORPHAN (platform-strategy cluster) — not cited anywhere in the decomposition body; recommend removal.

• Design for Lifecycle Adaptability

  • This source(Bibliography-only — uncited in body; topically a platform-strategy reference, likely contamination from a platform prime's reference list.)

• Interface
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• Modularity
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• Platform Design
  • The mechanism works because it inverts scalability: instead of central teams building individual products for each market, a platform team builds the foundation and the ecosystem builds the applications, making system complexity scale with ecosystem participation rather than central capacity
• Specialization
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